Liceo scientifico "Touschek”
Anno scolastico 2015/16
Classe IV sez. E
PROGRAMMA DI LINGUA E CIVILTA' INGLESE
Corso di letteratura:
The Renaissance (1485-1625)
Historical background:
The Tudors: Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary, Elizabeth I.
The Stuarts: James I.
Social background:
social and political changes.
Literary production:
Humanism and the Age of Shakespeare.
Drama
The development of drama
The world of theatre
Drama as a literary genre
The features of a dramatic text
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE (1564-1593)
- Tamburlaine the Great (Part II,V,3)
- Doctor Faustus (V,2)
BEN JONSON (1572-1637)
- Volpone (Argument / Act I , Sc.III)
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616)
-Hamlet (Act )
-Julius Caesar (Act III, Sc. II)
-Macbeth
- Romeo and Juliet (Act I ,Sc. V)
Poetry
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
-Sonnet XVIII
-Sonnet LV
-Sonnet CXXX
The Puritan Age (1625-1674)
Historical background:
the Stuarts: Charles I.
The Commonwealth: Oliver Cromwell.
Social background:
Puritans and Anglicans
Literary production:
Poetry
JOHN MILTON (1608-1674)
-Sonnet XIX
-Paradise Lost (Book I, II)
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The Restoration(1660-1702)
Historical Background :
The Stuarts: Charles II, James II, MaryII and William III, Anne.
Social Background:
Theatre re-opened, Libertinism, The Royal Society.
The Augustan Age (1714-1760)
Historical Background:
The Hanoverians: George I, George II.
Social Background:
Journalism,Coffe Houses, Middle Class, Methodism, Family, Position Of Women,
Realism, Language.
Corso di lettura:
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
-MACBETH (unabridged version)
Grottaferrata, 03/06/2016
Gli alunni
L'insegnante
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